Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first. The editor of International Literature, Moscow, cables that the books are having a vogue there - and I know that when this war is over there will be editions in some 40 or 50 countries where my books have been regularly translated over a period of 35 years. Ask your young reviewer if he can name any American writer who achieved international fame during his lifetime and who has since been forgotten...
Other members of the ERC, who live outside the First Corps Area and who did not ask to be sent to Devens for placement, will receive their orders from home Commands. The papers have already been sent to these by the First Service Command, which is handling all the orders for the College, and will probably be sent out as soon as the Home Command receives them...
...Cure. Biggest job was to persuade Latin Americans to ask for a U.S. aspirin instead of I.G.'s Cafiaspirina-a trade name that had been synonymous with aspirin below the border for 25 years. Sterling hit on the name of Mejoral (derived from mejor, meaning better in Spanish) and let fly with a terrific sales campaign that has left South Americans groggy-but full of Mejoral. During 1942 "Mejoral es mejor," Sterling's new slogan, poured from 230 radio stations in 7,000 half-hour programs, 5,200 quarter-hours, 4,700,000 spot announcements. (In parrot-loving...
...make it selfsupporting. Her new plan: to transfer the magazine's ownership from The Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that she has no chance of a personal profit...
...mill subscribers went a frank letter: "I ask your immediate help. . . . Within the next two months we must raise $25,000. If we fail . . . the Nation will [die]. . . . Won't you fill out the enclosed membership blank and send it back with a check...